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Yan Lianke was born in 1958 in Henan Province, China. He is the author of numerous novels and short-story collections, including Serve the People!, Dream of Ding Village, Lenin's Kisses, The Four Books and The Explosion Chronicles. He has been awarded the Hua Zhong World Chinese Literature Prize, the Lao She Literary Award, the Dream of the Red Chamber Award and the Franz Kafka Prize. He has also been shortlisted for an array of prizes including the International Man Booker Prize, the Principe de Asturias Prize for Letters, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the FT/Oppenheimer Fund Emerging Voices Award and the Prix Femina Etranger. The Day the Sun Died won the Dream of the Red Chamber Award for the World's Most Distinguished Novel in Chinese. He lives and writes in Beijing.
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"Charting the transformation of a rural village into a 21st- century megalopolis, it is a boisterously inventive novel that conveys the everyday reality of modern China" -- David Mills * Sunday Times Books of the Year * "As much a parody of communist rule in China as a devastating critique of capitalist excess, power, greed and self-destruction, Yan's novel is nothing short of a masterpiece" -- Claire Kohda Hazelton * Observer * "Extraordinary... A provocatively illuminating and perceptive insight into contemporary China" -- David Mills * The Sunday Times * "A hyper-real tour de force, a blistering condemnation of political corruption and excess masquerading as absurdist saga" -- Catherine Taylor * Financial Times * "A rip-roaring Swiftian satire from a contemporary Chinese master... Yan Lianke, one of China's most forthright and versatile novelists, enlists extravagant comedy and far-fetched fable to propel his critique of a society where "power and money have colluded to steal people's souls"" * The Economist * "An epic tale of miracles, madness, greed and corruption set against the backdrop of runaway urbanization... Even the most majestic of sights in this novel are distractions designed to mask the pervasive moral rot that lies just beneath the surface" -- Jeffrey Wasserstrom * Times Literary Supplement * "In this comic fable of modern China... Yan has absurdist fun with the impact that policy shifts have on cremation, the military, elections, and the town's efforts to woo American investors... It's mordant satire from a brave fabulist" -- Jeffrey Burke * Mail on Sunday * "China is put under the microscope in this exuberant and imaginative novel about the sudden growth of a town" * The Sunday Times * "In an uproarious cavalcade of boom and (Yan hints) bust, the four Kong brothers and their resourceful womenfolk mastermind the ascent of their home town. Explosion becomes China in microcosm... The novel's farce, fantasy and fun stay just a step or two ahead of China's gravity-defying truth. Not surprisingly, Yan's work has been repeatedly banned in China" -- Boyd Tonkin * Economist 1843 * ""[Yan's] fiction has lampooned some of the darkest moments in Chinese history... In this latest work, however, Yan shifts his irreverent gaze from the past to the present and toward projections of the future, taking stock of China's vertiginous economic rise and the astonishing dissolution of its collective social conscience... The formal inventiveness of The Explosion Chronicles is impressive and its fictional universe vividly drawn... I can think of few better novelists than Yan, with his superlative gifts for storytelling and penetrating eye for truth" -- Jiayang Fan * New York Times Book Review * "Both madcap satire and engrossing dynastic epic, as three rival clans compete to turn the idyllic Chinese village of Explosion into a booming megacity" * Good Housekeeping * "This darkly absurd history trucks freely with the fantastic - the city's airport is built in less than a week - but many of the more brazen events are taken straight from the news... Yan Lianke's burlesque of a nation driven insane by money is equally a satire of some of the excesses of the Chinese Revolution" -- Sam Sacks * The Wall Street Journal * "Yan Lianke paints a metaphoric and absurd portrait of contemporary China so obsessed with growth that its moral values have been left by the wayside. Yan Lianke's poetic prose rewards those who read to the end of this great novel of rare insight" * Le Monde * "An epic page-turner... Yan's mesmerizing ability to pull readers into this raw, subversive, not completely fictional world will continue to build his international audience. Mo Yan was the first Chinese national to be awarded the Nobel for Literature; Yan might just be next" -- Terry Hong * Library Journal * "Yan returns with renewed vigor to the job of lampooning communist orthodoxy, capitalist ambition, and `contemporary China's incomprehensible absurdity.'...[The Explosion Chronicles] has the absurdist feel of an Ionesco or Durrenmatt piece, though without any of the heavy-handed obviousness. Indeed, his satire is careful and crafty ... it can be read as a kind of Swiftian satire... Brilliant" * Kirkus (Starred Review) *

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